Responsible AI Strategic Enablement Lead

lloyds banking group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

A major banking institution is seeking a Responsible AI Strategic Enablement Lead to guide the ethical development and implementation of AI solutions. This role involves delivering AI risk mitigation strategies and establishing responsible AI practices across the organisation. Ideal candidates will have a PhD in AI, proven experience with ethical standards, and excellent relationship management skills. This full-time position offers a hybrid working model and is critical for fostering a culture of safe AI practices.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Range of wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience developing AI solutions to the highest ethical standards.
• Demonstrable expertise in responsible AI and regulatory landscape.
• Experience in Financial Services is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Help to deliver best-in-class AI risk mitigation solutions.
• Accelerate responsible development of frontier AI use cases.
• Support escalations of ethical edge cases to Ethics Committee.

Skills

Experience developing AI solutions to the highest ethical standards

Excellent relationship management and communication skills

Strong engagement skills

Education

PhD in AI or a related field or equivalent

Job description

End Date

Wednesday 17 December 2025

Salary Range

£83,411 - £98,130

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

A transformative leader in responsible AI, engaging and enabling the Platform and Business. This role will inform the patterns of ethical AI development and deployment for the Group and guide some of our most prominent AI use cases.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Responsible AI Strategic Enablement Lead

SALARY: £83,411 + (dependent on location and experience)

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Leeds or London

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in one of the above offices

About this opportunity

At this exciting time when Lloyds Banking Group is starting to adopt AI at scale, we are seeking a deep expert in responsible AI to join our AI Centre of Excellence in the Chief Data and Analytics Office! This hands-on role will play a critical part in enabling the Business and Platforms in Responsible AI approaches and techniques!

The role will partner with the Business and Platforms to bring appropriate AI risk mitigations to some of our most prominent AI use cases. It will establish guideline patterns that will be reused across the Group. In addition, the role will play a key role in establishing a programme of responsible AI enablement for the Group and help to mature our hub-and-spoke model.

This senior role is essential to helping Lloyds Banking Group scale responsible AI. You'll be expected to act as a transformative leader, with a strong vision, promoting a culture of safe and ethical AI throughout the organisation, advising our senior leaders.

In this role, you'll

• Help to deliver best-in-class AI risk mitigation and AI monitoring solutions, working as a partner to the Business and Platforms.
• Accelerate the responsible development and deployment of frontier AI use cases, including AI agents, forming repeatable patterns that the Group can leverage at scale.
• Support escalations of ethical edge cases to our Data & AI Ethics Committee.
• Demonstrate leadership on responsible AI, helping to shape Lloyds Banking Group’s standard of responsible AI adoption.
• Support a programme of enablement in responsible AI and the maturing of our hub-and-spoke model.

What you’ll need

• Proven experience developing AI solutions to the highest ethical standards, including directly engaging with AI product teams.
• Demonstrable expertise in responsible AI, including a firm understanding of the regulatory and legislative landscape.
• Excellent relationship management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior partners and course correct initiatives towards strategic outcomes.
• Strong engagement skills.
• PhD in AI or a related field or equivalent, significant industry experience working in a responsible AI-related role.
• Experience in Financial Services is preferable.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.